Oil on cardboard. Signed and dated in the lower right. Titled, dated, and inscribed "Goldschmidt Frankfurt/ M" by a hand other than that of the artist on the reverse. 33 x 45 cm.
“Without exaggeration, I can say that if I succeed in this endeavor, I will show painting a new and wonderful path with endless possibilities for development. I am on a new path that some masters have already sensed here and there, and which will be recognized sooner or later.” Wassily Kandinsky, quoted in: V. E. Barnett, New York 2009, p. 27. “Our two paintings are titled: Seeburg am Staffelsee and Dünaburg (1911). [...] Villa Seeburg is the painting you have documented. [...] Seeburg: A tower reflected in the water.” Herwarth Walden, letter to Gabriele Münter, January 5, 1914..

• Rediscovery of a work previously known only from a sketch by the artist.
• The pivotal year 1911: a central work from Kandinsky’s transition to abstraction and a milestone of Modernism.
• Early, significant provenance: in the Walden Collection, Berlin, since 1913.
• Later part of the Dr. Oskar Kirchner Collection—one of the most valuable collections of modern art of that era.
• The work has not been on public display for 100 years.
We are grateful to Dr. Mara Wantuch-Thole, LL.M., and Dr. Ewald Volhard, as well as to the heirs of Hedwig and Jacob Goldschmidt, for their kind support and expert advice.
LITERATURE: Wassily Kandinsky, “Memorandum,” late 1911, from: Hans Konrad Roethel, Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, vol. 1: 1900-1915, Munich 1982, p. 19, fig. 10. Hedwig Kirchner, List of the Distribution of the Oskar Kirchner Collection, before 1961, private estate. Herwarth Walden to Gabriele Münter, January 5, 1914 (letter), Lenbachhaus, Munich. Herwarth Walden (ed.), Walden Collection. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Plastiken, Galerie der Sturm. Third Inventory, November 1915, p. 6. Herwarth Walden (ed.), Walden Collection. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Plastiken, Galerie der Sturm. Fourth Inventory, May 1916, no. 102. Herwarth Walden (ed.), Walden Collection. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Plastiken, Galerie der Sturm. Fifth Catalog, April 1917, no. 113. Herwarth Walden (ed.), Walden Collection. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Plastiken, Galerie der Sturm. Sixth Catalog, May 1917, no. 136. Herwarth Walden (ed.), Walden Collection. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Plastiken, Galerie der Sturm. Seventh Catalog, March 1919, no. 171. Herwarth Walden (ed.), Walden Collection. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Plastiken, Galerie der Sturm. Eighth Catalog, October 1919, no. 171. Hans Konrad Roethel, Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky. Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, Vol. 1: 1900-1915, Munich 1982, p. 19, fig. 10. Karla Bilang, Kandinsky, Münter, Walden. Briefe und Schriften 1912-1914, Bern [et al.] 2012, pp. 150ff., 221.

Der Blaue Reiter, Kunstsalon Marcel Goldschmidt und Cie., Frankfurt am Main, Aug. 28-mid-Sept. 1912 (possibly, no separate catalog, with a shipping note “Goldschmidt Frankfurt / M.” on the reverse side of the work). Walden Collection, Galerie “Der Sturm”, Berlin, at least 1915-1919 (accompanied by catalogs). Sturm Gesamtschau, Kunstsalon Marcel Goldschmidt und Cie., Frankfurt am Main, Sept./Oct. 1917 (possibly, without a separate catalog, with a shipping note “Goldschmidt Frankfurt / M.” on the reverse of the work)

Nell and Herwarth Walden Collection, Berlin (purchased directly from the artist, before January 1914-at least 1919) Dr. Oskar Kirchner (1877-1956) Collection, Gelsenkirchen (in the family’s possession ever since)

Das Gemälde "Herbst II", 1912 (Roethel / Benjamin 438) nimmt das Motiv nochmals auf.

Condition report on request katalogisierung@kettererkunst.de